mime type naming conventions for applications

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tue April 27 2004 00:22, John Luke wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 	Sorry if I missed this somewhere but, is there a naming recommendation
> for application specific mime types? Specifically if you have two mime
> types for an app, or only one.  It might be nice to have a small mention
> of it somewhere, if only for uniformity.
>
> For example:
> application/x-<extension>
> or
> application/x-<application>-<type>
>
> I would slightly prefer the second one, as it lets you be a little more
> flexible with multiple extensions per mime-type, etc.

It's application/x-vnd.<vendor>.<application>.<type> what I can see. The 
<vendor> part is a bit tricky, in KDE we use "kde" as vendor.

Cheers,
Waldo
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